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Usage

Usage is a reasonable and law-ful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be effected thereby, existing nt the place where the obligation is to be performed, and either known to the parties, or so well established, general, and uniform that they must be pre-sumed to have acted with reference thereto. Clv. Code Dak. 8 2119. And see Milroy v. Railway Co., 98 Iowa, 188, 67 N. W. 276; Barnard v. Kellogg, 10 wall. 388, 19 L. Ed. 987; wilcocks v. Philllps, 29 Fed. Cas. 1203; McCarthy v. McArthur. 69 Ark. 313, 63 S. W. 50; Lincoln & K. Bank v. Page, 9 Mass. 156, 6 Am. Dec. 52: Lane v. Bank, 8 Ind. App. 299, 29 N. E. 613; Morningstar v. Cunningham. 110 Ind. 328, 11 N. E. 593, 59 Am. Rep. 211

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)